UNIVERSITY DRIVE

PEDESTRIAN SAFETY

IMPROVEMENTSPHASE II

Project StatusOctober 9, 2014

BACKGROUND• RFQ No. 12-020 for PER due November

2011• Contract No. 12-206 awarded to HDR May

2012• Scope of Work• Survey• Traffic Data Collection• Traffic Modeling• Public Meetings• Deliverables

• Conceptual Design w/ graphics• Preliminary engineering report• Corridor signal timings (Boyett to Texas)

PROJECT MEETINGS• Public Meeting in November 2012• Public and stakeholder input

• Met with local merchants on site• November 2012• February 2013

• CoCS, TxDOT, and TAMU met in October 2013

EXISTING TRAFFIC

EXISTING TRAFFIC

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN• College Main to Tauber• Extend median from Phase I

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN• Tauber to Nagle• Reestablish the raised median• Left turns prohibited into TAMU garage

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN• Nagle to South College • Staff continues working with TxDOT and TAMU• Possible Spence to Church signal relocation• Discussing potential impacts from TAMU

developments along University Drive

NEXT STEPS• Meeting with CoCS, TxDOT and TAMU to

discuss the impacts of the Midway development and the engineering complex

• Hold a public meeting

• Conceptual design will be finalized based on information gathered at these meetings

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